Gregory Treverton and Pari Esfandiari First published on The Hill 5G, the fifth-generation standard for broadband cellular networks, will soon appear on our phones if it hasn’t already. Its potential is stunning, faster speed and…
Digital Africa
It is often asserted that digitalization is the lever for development in Africa, that it and wide access to the internet will enable Africa to leapfrog over not just older technology but also centuries of…
Defining The Post Information Age
A Spotlight On Synthetic Biology in China By Paul Ross China’s 13th Five Year Plan (2016 - 2020), the country’s future-looking industrial roadmap, envisioned first steps China would take on the path towards a suggestive,…
DEMOCRACY IN THE SHADOW OF COUP:
China-India conundrum in Myanmar Authored by: Pooran Chandra Pandey The world watched last year’s military coup in Myanmar mostly in silence, but that silence has become more and more uncomfortable as violence has increased and…
5G: From Technology to Geopolitics
By: Leanardo Antonio Salud & Hongjiao Liu This white paper on 5G is a perfect exemplar of the Global TechnoPolitics Forum's mission of probing at the intersection of technology and geopolitics. 5G technology offers tremendous…
Digital Corridors
By: Dariush Onsori Central Asia, often regarded as a backwater still languishing in its Soviet and Russian-dominated past, it is now an arena of geopolitical competition, especially between China and India, whose approaches and wherewithal…
CYBER PEARL HARBOR
The looming threat of cyber-attacks on Industrial Control Systems By: Daniel Simonds "Cyber Pearl Harbor" is dramatic language because, after all, each time the United States or another country is attacked, that alerts them to…
Lebanon: Collapse!
Lebanon, which before its civil war stood as a symbol of what might go right in the Middle East, now stands as testimony to what can go wrong. It began to unravel in 2019, after…
Think again about China
By: Gregory Treverton - First Published in The Hill Even by the usual Washington standards, the current debate about China is remarkably caricatured. Indeed, it says more about us than about them, and, sadly, what…